Creating Healthy Organizations

Insight Facilitation helps build healthy organizations - organizations that have strong communication, strong relationships, and leadership at all levels. In this way, healthy organizations create a culture that attracts and retains talented people. Healthy organizations are seen as positive leaders in their industries and communities and also enjoy high productivity and inherent sustainability – the ability to adapt and grow.

We work with you, and we look at the whole organization, both internally and externally.  We customize our services to meet your unique needs and build a positive financial return on your investment into the process.

Our internal services include:

Leadership development and coaching, conflict resolution, skills training, team building, meeting facilitation and assessment tools.

Our external services include:

Multi stakeholder meeting facilitation, public consultation and community building processes.

Insight Facilitation delivers external processes that encourage participation, facilitate learning, and provide participants with an opportunity to make a meaningful contribution. Strong healthy relationships are created between citizens, stakeholders and your organization.
 

You will benefit from our services if you or your organization experiences any of these internal or external symptoms:

Internal Symptoms:

• talented people work as individuals in a group instead of working together as a highly effective team
• new opportunities are on the horizon that require decisions about growth and organizational development
• productivity is low; things take too long to complete
• managers and staff spend their time "putting out fires"
• poor communication and slow management decisions create costly delays
• conflict between co-workers is causing a negative work environment
• employee engagement is low; grievances, stress leaves and absenteeism are rising
• employee turnover is high; recruitment and training costs are soaring

External Symptoms

• vision and mission statements do not align with employees’ or public perception of your organization
• your view of your organizational communication style does not match others’ perceptions
• your organization is seen as unapproachable
• people lack trust in your consultation process and do not believe they will be listened to
  
  

Some characteristics of a Healthy Organization:

Internal Characteristics

• a positive, and profitable work environment
• people are engaged; they support one another
• high productivity and morale
• people are creative, decisive and feel a sense of workplace satisfaction
• people evaluate, create and implement sustainable systems and processes
• the healthy organization is prepared and equipped to effectively manage change and take advantage of emerging opportunities

External Characteristics

• trust is built between your organization, process participants and all stakeholders
• public consultation generates confidence that everyone’s input will be considered, increasing support for outcomes.
• feedback is encouraged, discussed, evaluated and acted upon
  
  

How we work with you

At Insight Facilitation we work at a deep level and look beyond the superficial symptoms to identify the strengths and underlying challenges facing your organization.  After our initial assessment, a contract is designed to meet identified outcomes and deliver a positive financial return on your investment.
 
Our four step process:

Contact Insight Facilitation for a consultation appointment

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